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Modernisation of the Indian Army See page 12 February-March 2015 Volume 12 No. 1 `100.00 (India-Based Buyer Only) SP’s AN SP GUIDE P UBLICATION www.spsmilitaryyearbook.com WWW.spslANDFORCES.COM ROUNDUP IN THIS ISSUE THE ONLY MAGAZINE IN ASIA-PACIFIC DEDICATED to LAND FORCES AERO INDIA 2015 >> COVER STORY SPECIAL: phoToGrAph: pIB MEET US @ HALL B (B3.7) PAGE 5 Modernisation of Army Air Defence India’s land-based AD weapons have alarming gaps and the proverbial AD umbrella is leaking heavily which needs immediate rectification Lt General Naresh Chand (Retd) PAGE 7 Military Helicopters in India MBT Arjun MK-I tank The operational diversities of the Indian Military coupled with variety of terrain (from sea level to Siachen Glacier) underline the need for state-of-the-art, modern technology helicopters capable of operating both by day and night Lt General B.S. Pawar (Retd) Modernisation of PAGE 10 Chinese Military Continues Developing High-altitude Western Frontier The Chinese Government promulgated the the Indian Army ‘Great Western Development’ strategy in 1999, and since then has systematically invested heavily on the logistics and The capital budgets, which are meant for procurement of equipment, when infrastructure development all through western China analysed for the years 2013-14 and 2014-15, seem to suggest that no significant Dr Monika Chansoria changes in equipment status of the Army will come about in the near future PAGE 11 The Islamic State — Self-styled Caliphate LT GENERAL V.K. KAPOOR (RETD) missiles, anti-tank and specialised ammu- that no significant changes in equipment ISIS has rapidly expanded its control nition was critically low. status of the Army will come about in the over Iraq and Syria by seizing towns and ENERAL V.K. SINGH (RETIRED), Following this it seems that the Defence near future. cities near major supply routes, critical the former Chief of Army Staff Ministry had asked Army Headquarters The notable features of arm wise infrastructure and border crossings (COAS), wrote a letter regarding to fast-track acquisitions and the list of modernisation required in the army and Lt General V.K. Kapoor (Retd) the status of equipment in the essentials was prepared and sent. How- the steps taken, as known through open Army to the Prime Minister on ever, the situation has not improved but in sources, are given in the succeeding para- PLUS GMarch 12, 2012. It highlighted that the fact has worsened in the last two years or graphs with respect to armour, mechanised SP’s Exclusives 14 mission reliability of mechanised vehicles so. Adding to the existing shortages is the infantry, artillery, and infantry. Army avia- was poor, the artillery was obsolete and new raising of the Mountain Strike Corps tion and Army Air Defence (AAD) have been News in Brief 15 inadequate, air defence was antiquated, for our Eastern theatre, which is expected included in separate articles on military armour was unreliable due to regular bar- to reduce the army’s reserve stocks called helicopters and modernisation of Army Air rel accidents caused by mismatch between “War Wastage Reserves” in terms of equip- Defence respectively. indigenous barrels and ammunition, ment and munitions further. The capital night-fighting devices were insufficient, budget, which is meant for procurement Armour aviation corps helicopters needed urgent of equipment, when analysed for the years The Army had equipped two regiments replacements, and holdings of all types of 2013-14 and 2014-15, seem to suggest with Arjun tanks out of the 124 Arjun APPLIED FOR 1/2015 SP’s LAND FORCES 1 In a country like India with limited support from the industry and market, initiating 50 years ago (in 1964) publishing magazines relating to Army, Navy and Aviation sectors without any interruption is a commendable job on the part of SP Guide Publications. By this, SP Guide Publications has established the fact that continuing quality work in any field would result in success. 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I convey my best wishes to the Editor and the staff of the SP Guide Publications for the successful publication of the magazines. Harish Rawat to prepare itself for the full spec- are tight, also continues to be Wars’. But the reality is that all the which keep occurring with tire- trum of warfare. besieged by a mindset regarding wars that India has fought till date some regularity in our decision Unfortunately the past decade the viability of conventional wars since independence were Limited making and procurement sys- or so has eroded our prepared- in the future despite the Kargil Wars and therefore our thinking tem. Moreover, the delays in pro- ness and capabilities due to the experience in mid-1999 wherein and our concepts have not re- curements will keep increasing complete neglect of the military they did not even cross the line ally changed. This is also a result the backlog and will force reor- by an uncaring political leader- of control in Jammu and Kashmir of the lack of a national security ganisation of our force levels and ship and a self-serving bureau- for fear of escalating the conflict. strategy from which the national therefore it would be prudent to cracy. Even military leadership Later on, consequent to the military strategy would flow thus carry out a holistic review of our has acquiesced by not protesting December 13, 2001, attack on giving us the guidelines for equip- requirements based on the avail- strongly enough for political lead- the Indian Parliament, Operation ping ourselves and for building ability of money for defence and ers to act. This has led to a situ- Parakram was launched wherein future capabilities. Operationally if need be lower our aims and The security threats and challeng- ation where the Army is required the entire Indian military got de- the military in India functions in a aspirations and accept the exis- es facing India have increased to face the future challenges and ployed and postured for a pos- vacuum with no worthwhile inputs tential reality. enormously since the end of the threats with growing obsoles- sible conflict on the Western front from the political leadership. This issue of SP’s Land Forces Cold War in 1989 and break up cence in virtually all arms of the against Pakistan. The nation has recently an- is focused on modernisation of the of the erstwhile Soviet Union two Army, including armour, artillery, However, after remaining at nounced the raising of a Moun- Indian Army, and includes articles EDITORIAL years later and finally the econom- infantry, army air defence and the borders for 10 months the tain Strike Corps for the Eastern on military helicopters, modernisa- ic rise of China, which the Chinese army aviation. Instead of acquir- forces pulled back. Senior mili- Theatre. However, without ad- tion of army air defence, China’s like to term as Peaceful Rise of ing capabilities for the future we tary officers often express their equate equipment and force mul- development of high-altitude China. While the old adversarial are hard put to maintain the cur- opinion that state to state, all out tipliers to ensure its mobility and western frontier, and the Islamic threats due to unresolved borders rent force levels. A dispassionate wars are a phenomenon of the firepower in mountainous terrain State – Self-styled Caliphate. remain and have got accentuated analysis would indicate that the past and are least likely to occur, in the future such an exercise is in recent times, new threats and voids in equipment and munitions yet our planning reflects that we futile. With large voids existing challenges like international ter- in the Army and lack of moderni- are still stuck in the quagmire of in the inventory of the Army how rorism, proxy war in Jammu and sation precludes the ability to fight conceiving and war-gaming sce- would raising another large for- Kashmir and home-grown insur- modern wars against well pre- narios of conventional wars as mation help? gencies have been added to the pared adversaries. was done in the past. The only Our planners need to seri- old inventory. Thus the Indian mili- Unfortunately the Indian mili- difference is that we now call such ously re-examine and review the tary continues to stress the need tary, at a time when the budgets conventional conflicts as ‘Limited entire issue in light of the delays Lt General (Retd) V.K. Kapoor main battle tanks (MBT) ordered by it has till now inducted around 780 T-90 Improvements in the Existing A new power-pack is also under consid- earlier. As a result of the satisfactory tanks out of a total 1,657 T-90S tanks it Fleet of Tanks eration to further enhance mobility in view feedback by the units and from the tank eventually wants.
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